Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-03-19
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CONCORD, N. H, March O.
Eps. 1NTELLlaENCER Many SHOWS have
fallon upon tho grave OF the venerable gan.
der irosm whose wing IVES extracted the pin
feather with which No WSots our laae news.
paper squih Our ink pot b musty. and our
mascot 10 far away over the mountains But
We did promise TO send greetings from this
land NJ CLANS and has ID. beauA He'd your
devil been ON our trail since We dropped the
parting tear, ~ We bade farewell 10 the loves
Of homo for three months tour among the
hills Of New England, We presume ho would
have voted the commercial tourists life one
Of privstion6 - we'll ~ adventures A. this
writing We cit In No IL Of the Ph1nix hotel,
Concord, N. H., and In our iittle prayer we
invoke blessings upon all "within its hor.
DOR" The surroundings arc all wecould dc.
slre. but without? Why, II commenced N
snow last evenings foot fell during the
night-and II has besn kept up all dy.
From tho border Of Massachusetts north, !
think the SNOW would aversge four feet all
over on level. II has been cold, at times,
but not excessively 10. II was 40 below
zero at Fort Edward, N. ", and other points
In the vicinity Of Lake George few weeks
ago, ard, indeed, wAs 800 below hero In Con.
cord. Hut the winter has beon comparatively
mild, that IL to say, not cold, but more Anow
has fallen than for years past
The fall has been about twetpe feet, and
more than onethird romaina Tho coldest
sleigh ride we have hsd was In drive from
Port Henry, n. r., to the ore minss. sis
sylvanis all know what Port Henry ore 10,
while but few have any idea Of the extent Of
the deposit by the way, we have In our
grip . sample Of the Bessoner ore from Lyon
mountain, N. r., which 10 thirty.four miles
west 10 northwest OF Plattsburg, that We
picked up at the mtnea We intend % place
Il among the relios on top Of the safe In the
oflice Of The Penn Iron company. Never will
va forget our visit to Lyon mountain. Tho
works of the company there are two thousand
feet abovs the level OF Lake Champlain. On
our trip va did not 80 single blue bird
We did sec piles-yes, verify mountains Of
snow.bound. Three engines and . shovel
brigade got us out We wero ak hours In
making tho thirty four miles.
THE ApIRoNDAcKs IN WINTER.
RaIlroading among the Adirondacks In
summer 10 grand, but In winter Well, just
say 70 your readers that II they want 70 fully
understand all about II, they had better
come and see tor themselves Ono year ago
the last week In March We crossed Lake
Champlain on the Ice IN . stage cc:ch, from
we had eight jolly drummers on and ton OF
baggage " crossed II again lsst August In
. steamer, and lively ride II To- But last
Tuesday We crossed II In . sleigh-a twenty.
four miles drive. We had, besides the
driver and your scribe, ono lone passenger
= back woods " butternut," with about -
much life ~ . mummy. We tried TO "chin
him" We put our Wits 70 work In many
ways, but the fellow only know that he was
bound for Bellows Falls, and Wa mum.
We stopped for dinner on Grand Island,
and We may add that mine host has remem.
bered US remarkably woll. And even the
US, asked IL we had not taken dinner there
last summer. But IL In wonderful how we'll
thu waiter girls will remember yon. And
the French guls "take tho cake" We went
to church fair, and tOour friends would say,
French fair. don't miss It u is electric.
One.third Of the people Of Northern New
York, Northern Vermont, and many thou.
sands in New Hampshirs and Maine speak
French. You hear Il every v here, and even
In Holynke, Mana, some Of the leading stores
are all French. speaking from memory Of
my previous visit 10 Manchester, N. H., last
summer, l think We were told that fully
sixteen thousand. or more than one. third Of
the population, are French speaking people.
Day before yesterday We came from 81.
Johnsbury, VI, (wherS the great Fairbanks
SCALES are msdel, down through the dreen
Laconia, n. II. The ride, even In winter, II
grand. but In summer 1t must be sublime.
Hut We sit alone in our chamber tonight and
cast sleeps eyes In the direction OF Lancaster,
Pa, while we study the patterns OF our bed.
room carpet
A MASuFACTURINa CENTRE.
We Sunday today In the little town OF
ClarsmOnt N. II. The Thermometer resis.
tors 500 in the shade, but the ground In oil
buried under about three feet OF very beauti.
full snow. New Hampshire will never send
much wheat, and corn, to market, but her
splendid water-power affords her facilities
for manufactures, and the wares OF . thousand
kinds are sent out over the world, and no one
but the manufacturer himself cares or asks
where the goods come from. The thirsty
Teuton, when he pulls the cork from his beer
bottle does not stop To inquire whether tho
cork was made by our genial friends OF the
COnestOga Cork works or any other manu-.
fsctur6r, yet the cork industry oi the country
N OF vast magnitude, while perhaps not more
than one man In tifty has ever seen . cork
are alive with busy hands, and the child's
carriage, sleds, tObOggsns, scythe sneaths,
machinery of every kind ,cOttons and woolena
hosiery, corsets, paper. Everything In made
here except nutmees, and you find them
But Ne said we were In Clsremont The
outlet OF Sunspee lake, Sugar river, pasSes
through the town. The lake 10 fed by many
mountain streAnlets and springs which
flow into beautiful basin about nine miles
long, with an average OF about ono mile wide.
There are three fine pleasant steamers on the
lake, and nearly thousand pretty cottages
line tts banks The resort IL growing very
popular W with tourists, and the party VINO can.
not hnd much OF the beautiful among the
bills OF New England must not come u us for
AdvicA
MOUNT AsCUTNEy.
We stood upon the bridge across the Sugar
river this afternoon, and asked the name OF
the grand old mountain which seemed about
. mile away. 1t was Mount Ascutney, and
1t 10 about five miles to the base, and i've
miles more by path 10 the summit 1t II over
three Thousand feet high and reminds you OF
Mount Mansfield, II not Mount Washington
ITSELF Mount Tom down In Msssachusetts 10
tame alongside Oft Our three months trip
among this French and Yankees, has been
full OF experience, and We don't intend to
writs II all up. II We did, u would make
funny looking panorama Bnt there IL more
natural beauty scattered among the noun
lains OF Northeastern New England and In
Vermont and New Hampshire than can be
found in PennsylvsDiA We will be In krat.
tlebOro tomorrow, then Greenfield, MasA,
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